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Espanyol arrived at the Ciutat de Valencia having lost five straight La Liga games and left with a win that snaps that run cold. Leandro Cabrera settled it in the 60th minute, the only goal of an otherwise stubborn afternoon for Villarreal, who sit tenth with 12 points but couldn't find a way past a side that came in rock bottom at 18th. The history said this shouldn't happen: Villarreal had won both of their last meetings with Espanyol, clean sweep, no draws, no losses. Cabrera tore that script up with one strike. Espanyol's form table reads LLDLL, about as grim as it gets, which makes this three points feel less like an upset and more like a release valve for a team that desperately needed one. For Villarreal, a first home league defeat of this kind stings regardless of the table gap, especially against a team they'd never lost to. Watch how Cabrera finds the gap in the 60th minute, the goal that turned a five-game skid into a statement in Villarreal.
